Charles Ives, Three Places in New England - Ensemble intercontemporain
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2017
- Three Places in New England (1931)
pour orchestre de chambre
Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, direction
Enregistré en direct le 24.09.2016 à la Cité de la musique - Paris
There's a lot I like about this performance, and one fundamental thing I don't, so I'll start with that: I don't much like doing this with only a few strings, making it into chamber music. It's an orchestral piece, originally written for full orchestra though that score is sadly lost. It was premiered by a chamber orchestra, but that was an expedient, and anyway I think they had more strings. (The existing manuscript is one that Ives cut down for the premiere.) That said, I like the playing and the interpretation. For one thing, European groups tend to play Ives like he's a mid-20th century European modernist, and he wasn't. He was a one-man post-Romantic American on his own wavelength. What is echt-American about him is that he's a maverick while absolutely thinking of his work in the context of the great European tradition. The playing here is warm and expressive, also nicely accurate. Maybe Putnam's camp could be rowdier and funnier, but it's OK. The Housatonic final movement needs more strings, needs that body of sound, but with this group it makes an interesting effect. And it's as beautiful as it needs to be. -Jan Swafford
Even as a classical musician, I dismissed Charles Ives as nothing but atonal noise. It wasn't until after college and retirement that I've started to understand it.....started!
Ok, I get that his ability to conduct this music presumably heightens the chances that his general taste is better than mine, but for christ's sake the purple graphic tee under a blazer is just awful.
After all these years, Ives is still THE American composer! Beautiful performance.
Hurts my ears
I have heard that Charles Ives began writing such music when he witnessed two marching bands pass one another during a parade. Lovely stuff.
I wouldn’t consider Ives atonal. Everything is tonal just with many tonalities at the same time. As is the same for the polyrhythms .
Charles: When I knew you for the first time I realized that a New World was opening to me: A new world of emotions, inner feelings and much more. You overjoyed that with more than my brain was ready to understand. Now, thirty five years later you feed me still. I am glad to be your friend. Wait for me to carry on loving us.
The first movement is way too slow. It drags. Listen to the Tilson Thomas recordings!
Magnifique !! La musique tient ici le milieu entre la nature matérielle et la nature intellectuelle : elle peut dépouiller l'amour de son écorce terrestre, ou donner un corps à l'ange selon les dispositions de celui qui écoute, ses accords sont des pensées ou des caresses 🔥🕊
Without formal restraints Ives describes the land, the spirit, the people. Such free and wonderful and joyful music.
I’m also from New England and find his music mesmerizing. Thank to performances like this, perhaps, his music will be included more in the repertoire.
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There is a power to this music with a direct connection to heaven.
I think this works beautifully as a chamber orchestra piece, even though not written as such. I didn't know it could work like this. Good work, folks!
What a perfect ensemble for Ives! A group that can play the entire 20th century and beyond. I hadn’t listened to Ives’ music in years and so was delighted to year it played so exquisitely.
Ives is the composer that tipped the scale for me to become a lifelong music professor instead of persuing the pre-med I was in. I was right! I would trade ALL of Schoenberg after Pierrot Lunaire for just this one work of Ives. Also, I love the quality of the recording here as well as the performance. The arguments and pedantic declarations in these comments about things like how many strings Ives "wanted" and who is right and knows the "real true way" seem petty and worthless in the face of this magnificent music.
One of the best performance I've ever heard of this wonderful music.
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Wonderful playing! I feel as if I'm greeting an old friend after they've had a rejuvenating vacation!!